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It was early last February in midtown Manhattan, and Nate Pollack ’07 had just been blindsided by a brain-teaser from DeutscheBank. Pollack was at the company’s New York City headquarters for a second round of job interviews and a complicated question had the Cornell junior stumped.

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U.S. Marine Jordan tells of surviving suicide bombing

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On October 23, 1983, a Hezbollah suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives to Beirut International Airport, where the U.S. Marines had set up their headquarters. Once outside of the barracks, the suicide bomber detonated his explosives, resulting in the deaths of over 241 servicemen. Major Robert Jordan, a former marine and homeland security expert who spoke yesterday about his experiences, was one of the few survivors of the attack.